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The goal of PoliticalThugs.net is to aggregate the best writing from around the web on rent-seeking, corruption, organized crime, influence-peddling, financial impropriety, and general economic mischief, alleged and otherwise. It brings together the work of investigative journalists, academics, NGOs, and other specialists on these subjects.

Neil Abrams

Neil Abrams received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation explored criminal corporate raiding in post-communist Europe. It sought to explain why certain countries ended up with effective property rights institutions capable of reining it in while others did not. He has done extensive field research in Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine and is currently completing a book on corruption in Ukraine. He consults businesses and other organizations about threats to property rights in emerging markets.